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CT 52, 008 (P481757)

Letter, Old Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	CT 52, 008
ID	P481757
Museum no.	BM 082567
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Letter
Find spot	Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah)
Coordinates	33.0605, 44.2552

Transliteration (ATF)

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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
obverse
1	a-na a-ka-ti-ia	for my food
2	qi2-bi2-ma	speak!
3	um-ma i-ni-ib-szi-na-ma	Thus they are:
4	{d}suen u3 {d}inanna A.HA{ki}	Sîn and Inanna of Ālu
5	[asz]-szu#-mi-ia da-ri-isz u4-mi	As for me, forever
6	[li-ba]-al#-li-t,u2-ka	may they keep you alive!
7	[x x x] {d}utu-tu-ku-ul-ti	... Šamaš-tukulti
8	[...]-kam	It is of
9	[...] x
reverse
1	[x] szu-ma	... that
2	[u2]-ul-li-ki-a-am	he brought to you
3	e-pu-sza-ki-im-ma	I did for you, and
4	u2-sza-ba-la-ki	I will send to you.
5	qi2-bi-szum-ma-mi	speak to him!
6	_sze-gag_-mi li-pu-sza-am-mi	my grain may they pluck up.
7	mi-im-ma-mi	everything
8	u2-la mi-in-ku	I did not eat.
9	um-ma mu-ha-di-tum-ma	Muḫadītum speaks thus:
10	_sze-gag_ e-DI-ri-ia	the barley of my rations
11	a-na na-ab-ri-i	to Nabrî
12	li-ru-hu-ni#	may they pluck up.

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